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Collaborative Writing – some considerations
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What is collaborative writing?
‘an inventive process and reflexive relationship through which two or more writers synthesize their individual perspectives to create a new, shared voice through which to compose texts … three basic qualities … reflexive dialogue … invention – [creation of texts to explore ideas] …continuity …’ (Duffy and Pell, 2013: 251
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Why might this matter?
• Collaboration is here to stay (including massive collaborative writing project – OED, Wikipedia)
• Value of togetherness and community (as an antidote to individualism?)
• Value of shared meaning making for learning – ‘writing as a medium for thinking, for the growth and exchange of ideas’ (Restaino, 2014: 9)
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Briefly, we will have the opportunity to:
•try some collaborative composition•reflect on collaborative writing•consider advantages and concerns around collaborative writing•consider some models of collaborative writing.
Trying collaborative composition
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Free writing
• Writing for five minutes
• Without stopping
• In sentences• For no reader• Without
structure.
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Try free writing to a prompt‘From today, and from previous experience, one of
the things that strikes me about collaborative composition/writing is …’
Remember • Writing for five minutes• Without stopping• In sentences• For no reader• Without structure.
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Brainstorming
Most ideas!
Advantages?
Concerns?
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Shapes and Models • Peer Review?• Writers’
Groups/Retreats/residencies/spaces
• Lead writing (sequential) – first draft
• Turn writing (parallel) – separate sections
• Side-by-side (reciprocal) writing
Technology in this?